One With Water: Water Protectors' Public Pedagogies and Memory in Chile

• In Event: World-Making Feminist Pedagogies and Praxes

Abstract

This paper explores the pedagogical lessons water protectors offer to climate justice educators amid climate precarity. Drawing on public pedagogical artifacts (documentaries and podcasts), the paper’s objectives are threefold: 1) draw on decolonial and feminist perspectives to challenge the denial of entanglement between human and non-human beings (Machado de Oliveira, 2021); 2) challenge human superiority over species as well as the primacy of empire in ongoing colonial dispossession; and 3) amplify water protectors’ memories. Water protectors 1) expose how capital accumulation and the state's role exert violence against racialized and gendered bodies, and 2) challenge the colonial and racist rationalities of capital accumulation and land dispossession that support the understanding of water as a commodity.

Author

• Claudia Diaz-Diaz, University of Victoria